Athens Quote by Edith Hamilton

In the end, more than freedom, they wanted security. They wanted a comfortable life, and they lost it all – security, comfort, and freedom.…

— Anonymous

[M]ore than they wanted freedom, the Athenians wanted security. Yet they lost everything-security, comfort, and freedom. This was because they wanted not to give…

— Margaret Thatcher

Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.

— Vladimir Lenin

“And it is plain enough, not from this instance only, but from many everywhere, that freedom is an excellent thing since even the Athenians,…

— Jim Lacey

What bitter anguish would not the people of Athens have often escaped if their government had contained so provident a safeguard against tyranny of…

— Alexander Hamilton

In every civilization, life grows easier. Men grow lazier in consequence. We have a picture of what happened to the individual Greek. (I cannot…

— Edith Hamilton

Freedom was born in Greece because there men limited their own freedom. ... The limits to action established by law were a mere nothing…

— Edith Hamilton

“Athens was ripped from their wealth and territory but their culture still lived on. This now engraved upon your memory, what decision shall you…

— Anonymous

“Because we live in a largely free society, we tend to forget how limited is the span of time and the part of the…

— Milton Friedman

This taste of freedom is still bitter because left in Athens are my wife and my two children and because so many of my…

— Mikis Theodorakis

“To be completely free, compelled by none to do as they wished”

— John Harrison

Humans were free before the word freedom became necessary.

— Edward Abbey